J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 99 STATE ST, in CANTON, New York, J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a compact intermediate school that enrolls 301 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within CANTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

CANTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,041 students. J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder reads as 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with St. Lawrence County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for St. Lawrence County shows median household income runs about $62,850, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across St. Lawrence County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,653 students), J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is H C WILLIAMS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 301). Class-load math has fell: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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